Inscription
by later hand, lower left on mount in red chalk: Hilmbreeck.
Provenance
Possibly Cornelis Ploos van Amstel (sale, Amsterdam, 3 March 1800, Album B, no. 49: "Het portrait van T. Helmbreeker, uitvoerig met rood Kryt geteekend, door hem selven"); sold to Goll for 20 florins. Johan Goll van Franckenstein [1750-1821], Amsterdam (sale, Amsterdam, 1 July 1833, no. 50); to Samuel Woodburn; Sunderland Collection; Duke of Marlborough; John Postle Heseltine [1843-1929] (Lugt 1507), London; Henry Oppenheimer [1859-1932] (his sale, London, Christie's, 10 July 1936, lot 251), London; private collection (sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby Mak van Waay, 19 April 1982, lot 346); (David Tunick, New York); purchased by NGA, 1982.
Exhibition History
- 1911
- Exhibition of Old Masters in aid of the National Art Collections Fund, London, Grafton Galleries, 1911, no. 119.
- 1929
- Exhibition of Dutch Art, London, Royal Academy, 1929, no. 695.
- 1983
- Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., May 1983.
- 2000
- "The Glory of the Golden Age" ("De Glorie van de Gouden Eeuw"), Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, no. 86, pp. 112-114, 148.
Bibliography
- 1913
- Hoogewerff, Dr. G.I. "Theodor Helmbreker," Oud Holland. 1913: 51, 63, no, 1.
- 1920
- Original Drawings by Old Masters of the Dutch School in the Collection of J.P.H. 1920: no. 10.
- 1957
- Bernt, Walther. Die Niederländischen Zeichner des 17 Jahrhunderts. 2 vols. Munich, 1957: no. 286.
- 1958
- Trautscholdt, Eduard. review of Bernt in Kunstchronik, 12 (December 1958): 369.
- 1989
- Meisterzeichnungen 1500-1900. Exh. cat. Thomas Le Claire Kunsthandel, 1989: 60, under no. 28.
- 2016
- Sale catalogue, Sotheby's, New York, 28 January 2016, under no. 123.
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